Sermons to the Papal Household
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THE LITURGY OF THE WORD - First Lenten Sermon 2022
- Friday March 11th, 2022
Among the many evils that the Covid pandemic is causing to humanity, there has been at least one positive effect from the point of view of faith. It made us aware of the need we have for the Eucharist and the emptiness that its lack creates; it helped us not to take it for granted.[...]
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“BORN OF A WOMAN” - Third Meditation for Advent 2021
- Friday December 17th, 2021
“When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman.” In this final meditation, I would like to focus on the meaning and the importance of this last phrase “born of a woman”, especially because of its relevance to the solemnity of Christmas which we are preparing to celebrate. In[...]
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“GOD SENT INTO OUR HEARTS THE SPIRIT OF HIS SON” - Second Meditation for Advent 2021
- Friday December 10th, 2021
In 1882, the archaeologist William M. Ramsay discovered an ancient Greek inscription at Hieropolis in Phrygia. The artifact was donated by Sultan Abdul Hamid to Pope Leo XIII in 1892, on the occasion of his jubilee. From the Lateran Museum, it later passed to the Pius-Christian Museum. The epitaph – described by historians as “the[...]
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“GOD SENT HIS SON THAT WE MIGHT BE ADOPTED AS GOD’S CHILDREN” - First Meditation for Advent 2021
- Friday December 3rd, 2021
Last Lent I tried to shed some light on the danger of living “etsi Christus non daretur,” that is, “as if Christ had never existed.” Continuing this line of thought, in this year’s Advent meditations I would like to call attention to another analogous danger: that of living “as if the Church were nothing more[...]
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“THE FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BROTHERS” (Romans 8:29) - 2021 Good Friday Homily
- Friday April 2nd, 2021
On October 3, 2020, at the tomb of St. Francis in Assisi, the Holy Father Pope Francis signed his Encyclical Letter, “On Fraternity and Social Friendship”, Fratres omnes. Within a short period, it has reawakened in many hearts the aspiration towards that universal value; has shed light on many wounds that afflict the world today;[...]
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